[Amps] WinLink

[John D'Ausilio]

Heh .. the league is a magazine publishing company .. period. Anyone
who expects them to do anything that's contrary to that basic mission
(like publishing unflattering reviews of advertiser's equipment, or
supporting a bandplan that would essentially orphan a more-or-less
redundant automated traffic handling system) is just silly.

de John/W1RT (non-member)


On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 10:05:34 -0500, Will Matney <craxd1 at ezwv.com> wrote:
> I just ran across something (2-3 days back actually) about the ARRL almost secertely pushing through a new bandplan for Winlink, I think was the name. I have read some others opinions before I made this post. One wonders why I will not re-license and this shows why. I have seen the ARRL now, over and over, for years now, seem to do some pretty underhanded things. It seems to me it is always tied to a money flow some where. I know all to well what they did to Rich Measures on here, and it was over deep pockets controlling what the ARRL now does. I'm sorry, the ARRL is supposed to be for all the amateur radio folks but when money is involved somewhere, it seems that things gets hushed, law suits gets threatened, and stuff is done under the table. Folks wonder why the membership is dropping off and this pretty much nails it. Before we had the internet, where information flows sooo freely, keeping things hid away was 100% easier. I started on the net about the same time I said 
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>  -by to my license. These types of actions is the very reason they went. To straighten it out, there ought to be a major house cleaning of the ARRL, and the FCC. There's too many corporate and political fingers in there. The ARRL should only be staffed by non-political, non business tied hams IMHO. This very thing is the reason I dont see myself ever being re-licensed in the near future. I just had to say something as I'd had this bottled up now for a few days. Any comments are welcome.
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> Will
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